"Look at all those people," I say as we pull into our hotel and the bus
just about runs over a bystander. After 20 hours of flying and
traveling we have arrived in our hotel. The travel time was not that
bad actually; I made nice acquaintence with a 16 year old
Chinese-American dude from Texas. His name is Josh. We
talked a bunch and he even let me watch a cheesy Chinese kung-fu movie
with him. Moderately sleeping in a cramped area helped make the trip go
faster. Josh and I played a bit of video games which was fun as well.


Most of my thinking when I got into Japan was "I cant believe I am in
Japan." As we walked through Narita, I just had a huge smile on my face
the whole time. I eagerly walked up to a woman in a booth and asked,
"Can I have one of these?" pointing like a kid at halloween to a
bookmark that had Japaneese characters all over them. She allowed and I
observed the interesting separation of garbage as I threw out my gum.
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I remember going to Ryan O'Connor's house when I was a kid. The only thing I can remember about it is that his house was in Birdland and that we used to play 8-bit Sega Master System at his house. I thought it was the coolest thing that he had that and I always wanted to go over there and play it. I haven't seen Ryan in years but I saw his brother Justin recently and he said that Ryan was in Seattle or something and doing well.

There used to be these two boys that would come over to our house for a while.  They were Kevin and my age.  I can't remember their names or how we met them.  What I do remember is that, one time, they were over and I think Kevin and I locked them out of the house and we watched them in the backyard from the window on the door in the garage.

Apparently this upset them.  Since we weren't going to let them in, one of them picked up some of Whiskey's poop and threw it or smeared it on the window as we watched.

If I remember correctly, they weren't allowed over after that incident.

We used to have these huge ant hills in the fields.  They were mounds of dirt, probably about two feet in diameter by one foot in height.  There were literally hundreds of ants crawling on top of each other doing who-knows-what.

My brother and I would pour various substances on them or throw caterpillars in the mound and see what happened to them.

One time we peed on them.  Those were simpler times.

In the Spring of 1997, I played a character named Sarah Brown in the high school musical "Guys and Dolls".  Noel was also in the musical...  along with his friend Todd (the guy who thought I had bad B.O.)

Anyway, I was required to do a few kissing scenes with a guy named Rick Davies, and since Noel and I had been going out for a couple months, he was very uncomfortable with this.

One night, during a live performance, Rick starts moving his lips around and kissing me for real!  I was stunned!  He was a great kisser and had very soft lips (ha, ha... just kidding Noel)

Once the scene ended, Rick started telling everyone about the kiss.  He said it was an accident.  He, apparently, wasn't thinking and it just happened. 

Noel found out and decided to take matters in to his own hands.  He started yelling at Rick.  I wasn't there, so I'm not sure exactly what happened, but I heard that Noel actually said "Three . . . Read More..